The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not. 
...words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time. 
The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows. 
This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated. 
Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales." p. 26 
Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more? 